- Paperback
- Publisher: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited (Feb 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1904598412
- ISBN-13: 978-1904598411
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.8 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 833,731 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Scotsman 23 April 2005
Childhood and adulthood combine to give this novel great human perspective. An unforgettable vision...a book to be prized.
Sunday Herald - 27 March 2005
Sexy, moving and funny... It honours the superficially mundane exchanges that populate – and redeem –everyday life.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
lyrical, moving, vital,
By A Customer
This review is from: Treading Water (Paperback)
I was very moved by this book. Collison writes beautifully. She weaves ideas about art, creativity, space, nothingness into an entrancing tale of two sisters and their ways of navigating their own paths through the illness and death of their mother. I felt that the story was a homage to a mother, and a story of resolution, human quirkiness and love. I have already given it to several friends and my own mother. I think it would be a great book to read if you are grieving, or thinking about ageing and death.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Warm, honest, well-crafted,
By John D (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Treading Water (Paperback)
Someone once described the death of a parent as 'the ordinary disaster'. It's a near-universal experience but it's catastrophic for the individual. How does anyone ever deal with the cavity of lost love and lost meaning that opens up after a parent dies?'Treading Water' approaches the subject with warmth and honesty. Any one who's been through that experience will find a lot to empathise with in this story of two English sisters dealing with the aftermath of their mother's death in Spain. This well-crafted book offers other rewards: Londonscapes of greasy spoons and council swimming baths,a rhapsody on the melancholy pleasures of the jumble sale , a bizarre comic interlude in which the ashes of Alison's mother are abducted and returned without ther knowledge. There is the sense of commitment of a first novel into which the author sometimes seems to be pouring everything they've learnt or felt about life so far. If this is her first novel, her future novels will be something to anticipate.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Treading Water (Paperback)
I was given the book as a present, the first novel of a friend of my sister's. We live in Brixton so I know every corner and have shared the thoughts. It's the kind of writing that anyone with aspirations to being an author would just love to be able to emulate even a fraction as well.The story hooks you in. The language is by turns rich and stark, full of wonderful descriptions that make you go 'Yes that's exactly it!' The style is full of rhythm and flow, staccato endings to paras that punctuate the narrative and give you a surprise- a nudge even a jolt. The chapters in Spain had me salivating - I could smell the coffee and feel the sun and their sadness. The sibling rivalry had a deep resonance for me and what will happen when my own mother dies.
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